Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-12-20

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e Seattle II regard - Eailrsad matter.
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Ren fF8nBe1pifncui1l, h8sa Les uiiliors
- King eounly during lie pas8 three
years b. the failure 10 develDp ih1iF OWE
interests. TheiF activity In I662, 1853
and 1884 Should hsEs been cenIinusd
thEpuRh 1855. 1856 aRd 1851. Dorfne
The hfst yesFE named they bnilI abont
50 miisa Of railroad, and they should
have built as least as many moEs miles
IN she fhres last years named. This
wczld have lnsludod an extension Of the
FuaEz Sound aHozn Lun.
10 Laks Visw, Pierce county, and
given 10 ne travelling public q more
direct, expaditiona and satisfactory
Koate 10 and from PoKtland; Il would
alsD have included the missing hnk 70
the common point On the Cascade
division Of tie Northern Psei1c; and Il
would have provided for short sessions
Of road 10 eQuak valley and into the
snoQualmEe eonntry. Had they huiit
more than Fifty miles they could have
gone On towards point Of connectiou
With tue Canadian Pacific, which would
have been slilI better. They virtually
bad left e them, for their exclusive 90
enpaneF, all that great aud valuable
couuiFy north uf Che line Of the North
eFn Parlic, and q very iitkle enterprise
like that suggested woald have con-
Gfmed them IN is exclusive occupancy
for LONG term Of years. TheFs would
have bees 10
sKATTLH. EAKE sHozR And nAsrKnn
And no Seattle q West Coast, had the
Oregon Improvement properly occupied
The field. Two millioR dollars spent IN
building and equippiuR during the past
three years would have been worth 70
them i've millions today
"Yes, but they claim they did not
hRga the money!
asuch talk 8 IDLE. Those companies
lincludine their allied interests. hays In
rssfed something like ten million dol
lars In California, Oregon and Eastern
WaahinRton durine the past three years..
A nnanimous veto Of the %. II. Il N. d.
rsetors spoke in favor 81 building rail
road ali the way from Portland to Seat
lie ct the eomUauyis election 10 1886,
and the Oregon lmpEovement company
voted Ia faEor Of laying oat $4,000 On
railroad extension IN King clunfy at
theif regular meeting Ia May, 1881, and
she bonds b raise the money were t..
susd soon afterwards; bat nothing has
resulted from either Of their votes or
resolutions, the management OF the
companies choosing TO ignore them and
spend money elsewhere"
"What IL your ides Of the result OF
this mismaunoementf'
"Why, yen see, instead Of their hag.
ing q strong. independent property. .
has allowed itself 10 become IN q posi-.
ton 70 be squeezed By the greater and
more pushing concerns 20 the south and
north. They have allowed themselves
10 be bottled up. ~ Il we're, and while
they can be pretty lively 10 their bottle,
they must say there ane make Is good
q light IS possible against those inter
ested In keeping them In.
aWhas would have been the sesnll
had they done aB you snegeat y
AHad the work gone on dnffna the
paat three years 70 the limited extent
spoken Of only, Seattle we1ld today
have numbered not far from 5000 in
habitanls within her corporate tlnnite,
and would have given an increased
business to the local companies that
would have renannerated them hand
somsly for TIE outlay Of new money"